Volkswagen's brand chief Herbert Diess said it will take months rather than weeks to reach an agreement with U.S. regulators on an emissions fix for 600,000 diesel cars, a German newspaper reported.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer last month increased pressure on Volkswagen by setting a March 24 deadline for the carmaker to state whether it has found a fix that is acceptable to U.S. regulators.
VW lawyer Robert Giuffra told Breyer at the Feb. 25 hearing that the company was making progress in trying to reach a settlement with the Justice Department, the EPA and California Air Resources Board.
But Diess, in an interview with a German regional newspaper, Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, published on Saturday, said it may take months rather than weeks for to reach a settlement.
